I want to go to the moon.

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Terminator X said:

Can't see it ever being for the plebs, there is no tech currently imaginable that will make going to the moon cheap like a plane journey.

TX.

The only ones that will be going are Robots ad Miners for minerals......Humans will just destroy a Planet and Moons for Minerals that's why the big money is going in to these space projects

[Krupp88]

As soon as it gets a bit popular up there Wayne Lineker will pop up and set up a vulgar drinking establishment sponsored by Grey Goose, might do its bit to bring the prices down.

[Talksteer]

Olivergt said:

Talksteer said:

Olivergt said:

I doubt it in your lifetime.

If money was no object, then probably in your lifetime, but you have specifically said you don't have millions to spend.

Don't forget,we don't currently have rockets that can even get people to the moon and back.

Current cost per person to get to the Space Station is around 50 million at the moment.

https://www.space.com/spacex-boeing-commercial-cre...

Yusaku Maezawa has bought a free return trajectory flight to the Moon this decade.

We know that the flight must have cost considerably less than his $2 billion net worth. If we have an upper bound of $1 billion and a lower bound of $150 million then that puts the per seat cost at around $100-15 million per seat, I would estimate a 2025 date.

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So you are saying that in 5 years time, there will be spacecraft going to the moon, maybe not landing, but going there and back.

I'm not quite sure what the point would be of just doing flybys though?

5 years is not very long in space flight timescales, so you have references for the space craft that they might be using? I would have thought that the planning and even construction/testing would have started by now to achieve a 2025 launch date.

Well Elon claims that they will do it by 2023!

The rocket they will use is the Starship which should go sub-orbital their year. They are starting work on the booster this year as well. The planning and testing of the craft has been going on for the last two years.

Precisely what the mission mode will be is also subject to debate.

Personally I wouldn't put people on the Starship when it does its suicide burn landing so potentially the crew might end up landing in a Dragon capsule or just fitting ejector seats.

Ordinarily they would expect to use in orbit tanking to get to the moon but as they are doing a flyby with a very light load they might do a down range booster recovery.

I doubt even SpaceX know precisely what how they will do it as they haven't even flown it with wings yet.

[anonymous-user]

I wouldn’t go there if you paid me.

Just does not appeal in the slightest. I find the moon and space interesting, and watch/read a lot about it and the technology, but going there myself? No chance.

[Beati Dogu]

A recent rendering by ICON of a Moon base concept. ICON is a construction technologies company who are working with NASA.

More here:

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/release...

[Talksteer]

Beati Dogu said:

Slackline said:

Did anyone else read this in the voice of Bricktop?

Punish 'im for me Elon !

Now it's rumoured that Elon's favourite method of dispatch is a stun gun to the back, a bag, tape and incineration in the exhaust of an EELV class booster.

[loafer123]

Olivergt said:

I doubt it in your lifetime.

If money was no object, then probably in your lifetime, but you have specifically said you don't have millions to spend.

Don't forget,we don't currently have rockets that can even get people to the moon and back.

Current cost per person to get to the Space Station is around 50 million at the moment.

https://www.space.com/spacex-boeing-commercial-cre...

The only thing that might change this would be nuclear fusion. The limit isn’t design or materials for the spacecraft, but is energy.